Tim Berners-LeeWe shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightl… ▶371Humanity
Tim Berners-LeeI want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going… ▶362Reading
Tim Berners-Lee[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.374Sadness
Tim Berners-LeeIt was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.365ThoughtTime
Tim Berners-LeeWeb users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.365Truth
Tim Berners-LeeWhen it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.321Time
Tim Berners-LeeData is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.354Hope
Tim Berners-LeeMy own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity… ▶333Humanity
Tim Berners-LeeThe Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.377Time
Tim Berners-LeeWhat's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring. ✨ US backing for t… ▶311Time
Tim Berners-LeeThe original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.378Thought
Tim Berners-LeeIt's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return. ✨ W… ▶345Philosophy
Tim Berners-LeeThe web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. ✨ Weaving the Web. Boo… ▶378HumanityReading
Tim Berners-LeeThe dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.312Thought
Tim Berners-LeeThe power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.312Politics
Tim Berners-LeeWeb applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a w… ▶368Humanity
Tim Berners-LeeIt was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.313HumanityReading
Tim Berners-LeeI hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. ✨ Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children. Interview with Lila King, www.cnn.com. Oc… ▶335HopeLife
Tim Berners-LeeThe story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow peopl… ▶369HumanityReading
Tim Berners-LeeThe challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to sh… ▶358Politics
Tim Berners-LeeOne of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't. ✨ Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook. Interview with Ian Katz, w… ▶369Reading
Tim Berners-LeeIf I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could … ▶304HumanityTime
Tim Berners-LeeI'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisatio… ▶337HopeHumanityTime
Tim Berners-LeeThe Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large. ✨ Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, S… ▶282Politics
Tim Berners-LeeThe Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.304HopeTime
Tim Berners-LeeI basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other. ✨ Interview with the Web’s Creator. Interview With Chris… ▶271Philosophy
Tim Berners-LeeCompared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.304Death
Tim Berners-LeeWhen something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.315Philosophy
Tim Berners-LeeIf you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.3610HumanitySadness
Tim Berners-LeeSites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.261Humor
